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FORT CARSON — Fort Carson officials plan to soon award contracts on the first of $773 million in construction projects for its own new combat aviation brigade — likely injecting new life into the local economy while bucking Defense Department efforts to downsize budgets and cut troop levels.
“By the skin of our teeth, the combat aviation brigade is coming to Fort Carson,” said Maj. Gen. Joseph Anderson, the post’s commanding general.
The airfield’s transformation is beginning to take shape.
Within the next week, post officials plan to open up bids to construct a $14.2 million building to house the brigade’s headquarters. Bids opened for a $63 million aircraft hangar earlier this year.
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